Deck 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War Ii

Question 1

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Beer Hall Putsch

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Question 2

What were the most significant ideas and outcomes of the conferences at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam?

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Question 3

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totalitarian state

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Question 4

Explain both the long-term and immediate causes of World War II.

Question 5

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National Socialist German Workers' Party/Nazis

Question 6

Is it fair to say that World War II was often as destructive and terrifying for civilians on the home front as it was for soldiers on the battlefield? Why or why not?

Question 7

What was the crucial year in determining the outcome of World War II, and why?

Question 8

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Benito Mussolini's Fascio di Combattimento

Question 9

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Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf

Question 10

Describe the Holocaust in terms of its most significant events and participants. Which groups were targeted, and why?

Question 11

What political, economic, and/or social conditions enabled the rise of Hitler in Germany? How did Hitler take advantage of Germany´s problems in seizing political power?

Question 12

What was the "Cold War," and was it inevitable? Why or why not?

Question 13

Compare the authoritarianism of Stalin's Soviet Union with that of Hitler's Germany. What are the similarities and what are the differences between the two regimes? Was one more "totalitarian" than the other?

Question 14

Did the entrance of the United States into World War II, coming about six months after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, make the defeat of Germany, Japan and Italy inevitable? Why or why not?

Question 15

How did Hitler attempt to implement his New Order in Europe? To what degree was it effective and in line with his ideological goals?

Question 16

Why did Japan ultimately fail in its campaign of "Asia for the Asians"?

Question 17

Why were militarists able to gain and exert so much power in Japan in the 1930s? Did their control of government make the Pacific phase of World War II inevitable? Explain.

Question 18

What was "fascism" and what was its appeal to so many in the years following World War I?

Question 19

How and why did World War II play a key role in bringing an end to the era of European colonialism in Asia and Africa?

Question 20

Compare the roles of women in the war economies of the major combatants in World War II. How do you explain the difference?

Question 21

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the Sudetenland

Question 22

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Lebensraum

Question 23

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collectivization of agriculture

Question 24

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fascism

Question 25

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Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact

Question 26

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Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact

Question 27

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Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 28

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the Munich conference

Question 29

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invasion of Ethiopia

Question 30

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SA / Sturmabteilung

Question 31

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Heinrich Himmler

Question 32

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Five-Year Plans

Question 33

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"Monroe Doctrine for Asia"

Question 34

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Old Bolsheviks and the purges

Question 35

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"Asia for the Asians"

Question 36

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the Enabling Act

Question 37

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Kristallnacht

Question 38

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Manchukuo

Question 39

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SS/Schutzstaffel

Question 40

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Triumph of the Will

Question 41

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Allied strategic bombing survey

Question 42

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Final Solution

Question 43

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Einsatzgruppen

Question 44

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Vichy France

Question 45

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Blitzkrieg

Question 46

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Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944

Question 47

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Cologne and the Dresden raids

Question 48

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Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Question 49

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conquest of Nanjing, December 1937

Question 50

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"unconditional surrender"

Question 51

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decolonization

Question 52

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Joseph Stalin

Question 53

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Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Question 54

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Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

Question 55

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Erwin Rommel and El Alamein

Question 56

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the Grand Alliance

Question 57

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Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway

Question 58

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the Blitz

Question 59

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 60

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Battle of Stalingrad

Question 61

The SA, or Storm Troops, were

A) the Nazi party militia.
B) the major threat to the security of the Nazi Party before 1923.
C) the first type of Kolkhoz.
D) led by Hermann Goering.
E) Mussolini's Black Shirts.

Question 62

Which leader first used the term "totalitarian"?

A) Benito Mussolini
B) Mao Zedong
C) Francisco Franco
D) Adolf Hitler
E) General Franco

Question 63

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free elections in Eastern Europe

Question 64

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Winston Churchill and the "Iron Curtain"

Question 65

Which statement best describes Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?

A) It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life.
B) It achieved greater power, in repression and media control, than the dictatorships in Germany and the Soviet Union did.
C) It tried to involve all Italian socialists in a program of indoctrination, but achieved only limited success in that area.
D) It promoted an egalitarian view of women´s roles in society.
E) It was strongly supported by business and large landlord groups.

Question 66

The originator of the concept and practice of fascism was

A) Adolph Hitler.
B) General Francisco Franco.
C) Juan Peron.
D) Benito Mussolini.
E) Otto von Bismarck.

Question 67

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
division of Germany and Berlin

Question 68

The Nazi Party

A) had originally been called the Labor Party.
B) had 800,000 members by 1932.
C) gave qualified support to communism until 1935.
D) favored collectivization until 1934.
E) made class-based appeals in elections.

Question 69

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Cold War

Question 70

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"comfort women"

Question 71

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United Nations

Question 72

One of Hitler´s key lieutenants, who commanded the SS, was

A) Paul von Hindenburg.
B) Heinrich Himmler.
C) Leni Riefenstahl.
D) Hermann Göring.
E) Joseph Goebbels.

Question 73

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences

Question 74

Hitler wrote Mein Kampf

A) during World War I.
B) before the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.
C) while in jail after the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
D) during the early years of the Great Depression.
E) after becoming Chancellor in 1933.

Question 75

The event(s) that allowed Hitler to gain dictatorial powers by "legal" means was/were

A) his Dachau speech and the two subsequent assassination attempts by the SPD in 1932.
B) the death of President Hindenburg and Hitler's speech at Hindenburg's funeral.
C) the Reichstag fire, Mussolini's "Caesar" speech, and Rommel's endorsement.
D) the crushing of the Kiel Mutiny by the SS.
E) the passage of the Enabling Act by the Reichstag.

Question 76

Hitler´s support in Germany derived partly from

A) his anti-capitalist appeals to the working class.
B) his support from the conservative economic elite, which saw him as a bulwark against communism.
C) his promise to uphold the Versailles Treaty in spite of its unpopularity.
D) his aim to restore Germany's leadership of the League of Nations.
E) his threat to tear up the unpopular German Constitution.

Question 77

Mussolini became prime minister of Italy

A) when King Victor Emmanuel, reacting to Fascist intimidation, appointed him.
B) because the Fascio di Combattimento won a majority of seats in the parliamentary election.
C) after groups of squadristi destroyed the socialist opposition to Fascist rule.
D) when he mounted a violent coup d'état and seized control of the government.
E) when he made an alliance with the pope and the Bolshevik government of Russia.

Question 78

The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923

A) brought Mussolini to power.
B) was an attempt to seize power in the independent nation of Southern Bavaria.
C) brought Hitler to power in Germany.
D) gave Hitler and the Nazis publicity in Germany.
E) led to the German government exiling Hitler back to his native Austria.

Question 79

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"displaced persons"

Question 80

Which statement best characterizes totalitarian states in the 1930s?

A) They were democratic and championed individualism and democratic freedoms.
B) They were all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorships that subordinated individual needs, and employed police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control.
C) They limited their authoritarian dictates to the political and economic aspects of the state's affairs, in an effort to have freer social and cultural choices serve as means of placating the masses.
D) They wanted the masses to rule in all aspects of governance.
E) They depended upon the appeasement policies of the Eastern democracies.